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Houston We Have a Podcast

Mission Control

Houston We Have a Podcast

Katie Konans

Science

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Mary Lawrence, Flight Director in Mission Control Houston, talks about what it’s like inside Mission Control, what it takes to be a flight controller and flight director, how mission control has evolved, and what it may look like in the future. HWHAP Episode 11.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Houston, we have a podcast.

0:02.0

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, episode 11,

0:06.0

Mission Control.

0:07.0

I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

0:09.0

So on this podcast, we bring in the experts, NASA scientists, engineers, astronauts, flight controllers,

0:14.4

all to tell you all the coolest information about NASA.

0:17.0

But we're not the only NASA podcast to do so.

0:19.9

As you may know, the Cassini Mission came to a close last week on September 15, 2017 by literally

0:25.7

diving into Saturn.

0:27.6

It has made some amazing discoveries, collecting critical data on the ring-plantered Saturn and the icy moon Enceladus and even

0:34.4

landing a probe the Huygens probe on the geologically fascinating Moon Titan.

0:38.6

If you want to hear more about what Cassini did and learned, check out the

0:42.1

NASA and Silicon Valley Podcast. Our friends over at NASA. about what

0:50.3

Kacini did and learn, check out the NASA and Silicon Valley Podcast.

0:44.0

Our friends over at NASA Ames Research Center talked with some of the

0:46.8

experts on a few episodes actually about the mission and what they've

0:50.4

learned about the sixth planet and its moons.

0:52.6

And of course a big congratulations to the scientists and engineers who work so hard

0:56.2

to make this mission such a success.

0:58.7

So today here on Houston, we have a podcast.

1:01.6

We're talking about Mission Control with Mary Lawrence.

1:04.6

She's a flight director here at the NASA Johnson Space Center

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